From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu Nov 29 21:36:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AB4937B417 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:36:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from azure.dstc.edu.au (azure.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.27]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAU5abO24946 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:36:38 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:36:43 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: inconsistencies in alpha packages ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 1.0 (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/) Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, can anyone enlighten me as to how alpha packages are put together ? they look quite different to the i386 packages tree. e.g there is no 4.4 release tree - it points directly at packages-4-stable. the packages-5-current tree has a Latest directory made up of symlinks into the All directory the packages-4-stable has a Latest directory which is approximately the same size as the All directory ? since each tree is about 1.5G in size, does this mean that we're forced to download an extra 1.5G each time the tree is updated (for no reason?) or am i missing something? -rw-r--r-- 1 mirror mirror 36486 Apr 23 2001 All/3dc-0.8.1.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 mirror mirror 36486 Apr 23 2001 Latest/3dc.tgz regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message